The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Stranger shoots at hunter

An Appling man told authorities that someone shot at him multiple times while he was out hunting on New Year’s Eve.

The 38-year-old man said he was hunting on Corps of Engineers property, the Below Dam Quail Demonstration Area, about 2:30 p.m., when someone fired several rifle rounds toward him, hitting 20 to 40 feet ahead of him.

The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Waterworks sign broken

A Columbia County Water Utility manager called authorities Monday after discovering someone broke the digital sign at the new administrative offices.

The manager said she arrived at work at about 9:45 a.m. and noticed the digital sign in front of the offices at 2140 William Few Parkway wasn’t working. She said she found holes in several parts of the $45,000 sign.

Two Milledgeville, Ga., men were arrested after they were caught transporting marijuana through Harlem early Monday.

At about 9:45 a.m., a Harlem Department of Public Safety officer tried to stop a 2002 Honda Accord on Milledgeville Road (U.S. Highway 78/278). The driver, later identified as Thaddius Hall, 21, fled for more than a mile before stopping near the McDuffie County line, according to Chief Gary Jones.

The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Greenbrier student caught with alcohol

A Greenbrier High School student was caught with alcohol after buying it from a classmate Monday.

An assistant principal at the school on Riverwood Parkway in Evans said that he received a tip that a 15-year-old male student had alcohol. In the student’s bag, he found a full jar of brown liquid with fruit slices and a cinnamon stick in it. The student said the liquid was moonshine.

An Appling woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with falsely accusing two men of sexually assaulting her, authorities said.

Mindy Rickerson Readdy, 32, is charged with making a false report of a crime and making false statements.

At about 2 a.m. on Oct. 31, Readdy called authorities claiming her 19-year-old boyfriend put a knife to her throat and raped her in their bedroom. She said her boyfriend, Cody Carson, told her he’d get away with raping her because he is her boyfriend.